Re: Object and Event

[Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>]

Jack Waugh asks:

> Would you call a candle flame an "event", or an "object"?

An "object". I could say, for example that it is blue,
which would be harder to understand in the case of an event.

I should say that I would call {le fagri} an object, but
probably in some context would translate the English "flame"
as {le nu fagri}.

What I think would be wrong is to treat {le fagri} as an event,
but others will disagree.

> Recall that the flame retains no material for long; all
> its material is always flowing through it.

The physical composition is not really the issue. The individual
atoms which form a plant are not always the same, even though the
plant remains the same.

Jorge